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That Was Just Your Life. · MetallicA

EXERCISE 36 OF 60
Join Chorus 5 to Part J (bars 181-183)
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0 / 60 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 5, PART J
PART A
PART I
CHORUS 3
PART I
CHORUS 5
PART J
CHORUS 6
PART I
OUTRO
10 groovesKIANJ+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 16
LINK · 14
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play That Was Just Your Life. on drums

293 bars of 4/4 at a walking 84 BPM, 13:56 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

50 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
84 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
293
LENGTH
13:56
DIFFICULTY
50/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-29, silence through bars 30-32, snare through bars 33-36, hi-hat through bars 37-48, snare through bars 49-52 and hi-hat through bars 53-84, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 37-39, 41-43 and 53-59, and 27 more places -- 28.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---x---x-|
That Was Just Your Life. -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 22, 24, 26, 28, 60, 68 and 14 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 54 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- I, K -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part H and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 45-55 -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. Bars 52-77 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part N and the Chorus 3 -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 3 and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 179-209 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is That Was Just Your Life.?

84 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is That Was Just Your Life. hard to play on drums?

50 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

293 bars, about 13:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in That Was Just Your Life.?

5 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 22, 24, 26, 28, 60, 68 and 14 more.

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